# Date: May 6, 1918

DRAFT THESES ON THE CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SITUATION
...to intensified military preparation, must not cross that line at which we ourselves contribute to panic (which is observed in the unstable political statements of certain comrades, sometimes playing at "leftism").

Appendix.

RESOLUTION OF G. YA. SOKOLNIKOV
(PROPOSED BY HIM AT A SESSION
OF THE C.C. ON MAY 10, 1918)*

The C.C. holds that the state coup in Ukraine signifies the creation of a new political situation, characterized by an alliance of Russian bourgeoisie with German imperialism. In these conditions, war with Germany is inevitable, the respite—granted by the Brest Peace—is finished. The task of the Party is to proceed to immediate, open, and mass preparation of military operations and organization of resistance through broad mobilizations. At the same time, it is necessary to conclude a military agreement with the Anglo-French coalition for the purpose of military cooperation on defined conditions.

* Printed from a manuscript in the archive of the Lenin Institute
(archive no. 3277). Ed.